With 11% of the S&P 500 companies having reported fourth-quarter results, corporate earnings are on track to rise 2.3% year over year, according to Thomson Reuters. Financials and consumer discretionary stocks are enjoying the most earnings growth, of 12% and 10.8%. Industrials are showing the worst performance with earnings slipping 5.7%.

China reported its gross domestic product grew at a faster-than-expected rate of 7.9% in the fourth quarter year over year, suggesting the world's second-largest economy has most likely avoided a hard landing. It grew at its slowest rate in 2012 since 1999.

Inflow into emerging markets stock and bond funds totaled $7.2 billion the week ended Jan. 16, for a combined year to date total of $18 billion, EPFR reported. That's 4-1/2 times more than the $4 billion they absorbed the first two weeks of last year.

Inflow into emerging market funds outweighed developed market for the sixth time in the past seven weeks.

Inflow into all stock funds totaled a net $7.19 billion in the latest week, with roughly 20% of that flow going to dividend-paying stock funds.

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